All, This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install the new Nvidia display drivers for X. After the install, I want to re-enable booting into X. Does this make more sense?
Jon -----Original Message----- From: Gary Hennigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: default run level "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change > > > inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X? > > > > On a clean install, level 2. > > Bzzt! Wrong answer... Your answer applies only to Red Hat (and Red > Hat-derived distros). It does not apply to debian. Right answer, wrong question! :) Actually, I did read the question incorrectly. But you certainly can use runlevels to decide whether or not you want to start XDM. I set mine up that very way. RL 2, does not start XDM, RL 3 does. Easier for me to boot it the way I need it, especially on my laptop. And yeah, the way you customize your run levels globally is with update-rc.d. But, and I may be wrong, *again*, if you want to customize a specific run level, for example, remove xdm from RL 2, you just go into /etc/rc2.d and remove the appropriate link manually. Debian is also smart enough, I believe, so that it won't overwrite the changes you make if you do things manually like this. And isn't there still an issue if you globally do update-rc.d -f xdm remove for example, the next time xdm gets updated via apt/dselect/etc. it will reinstall the xdm links if you have your configuration priority high enough? Or did that get changed? Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
